Installing the package through pip fails

[mooskagh]

The last python version that worked with mediawiki-parser is 3.11.3.

There, when you install the module, the following warning was displayed:

  DEPRECATION: pijnu is being installed using the legacy 'setup.py install' method, because it does not have a 'pyproject.toml' and the 'wheel' package is not installed. pip 23.1 will enforce this behaviour change. A possible replacement is to enable the '--use-pep517' option. Discussion can be found at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8559
  Running setup.py install for pijnu ... done
  DEPRECATION: mediawiki-parser is being installed using the legacy 'setup.py install' method, because it does not have a 'pyproject.toml' and the 'wheel' package is not installed. pip 23.1 will enforce this behaviour change. A possible replacement is to enable the '--use-pep517' option. Discussion can be found at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8559
  Running setup.py install for mediawiki-parser ... done
Successfully installed mediawiki-parser-0.4.1 pijnu-20160727 py3compat-0.4

In python 3.11.5 (or later), the it fails like this:

 pip install mediawiki-parser
Collecting mediawiki-parser
  Using cached mediawiki-parser-0.4.1.tar.gz (34 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
Collecting pijnu>=20160727 (from mediawiki-parser)
  Using cached pijnu-20160727-py3-none-any.whl
Collecting py3compat (from pijnu>=20160727->mediawiki-parser)
  Obtaining dependency information for py3compat from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a2/c9/b8041f2ec26bc2e57bcc2622a967dc15e42e9728844eb99b9af11bb5e224/py3compat-0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata
  Using cached py3compat-0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (837 bytes)
Using cached py3compat-0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (5.2 kB)
Building wheels for collected packages: mediawiki-parser
  Building wheel for mediawiki-parser (pyproject.toml) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Building wheel for mediawiki-parser (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [55 lines of output]
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      running build_parsers
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "/home/crem/dev/ifdb/virtualenv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 353, in <module>
          main()
        File "/home/crem/dev/ifdb/virtualenv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 335, in main
          json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/home/crem/dev/ifdb/virtualenv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 251, in build_wheel
          return _build_backend().build_wheel(wheel_directory, config_settings,
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 410, in build_wheel
          return self._build_with_temp_dir(
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 395, in _build_with_temp_dir
          self.run_setup()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 487, in run_setup
          super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 311, in run_setup
          exec(code, locals())
        File "<string>", line 56, in <module>
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 104, in setup
          return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 184, in setup
          return run_commands(dist)
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/core.py", line 200, in run_commands
          dist.run_commands()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 969, in run_commands
          self.run_command(cmd)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 967, in run_command
          super().run_command(command)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 988, in run_command
          cmd_obj.run()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py", line 368, in run
          self.run_command("build")
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 316, in run_command
          self.distribution.run_command(command)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 967, in run_command
          super().run_command(command)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 988, in run_command
          cmd_obj.run()
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/command/build.py", line 132, in run
          self.run_command(cmd_name)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/cmd.py", line 316, in run_command
          self.distribution.run_command(command)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 967, in run_command
          super().run_command(command)
        File "/tmp/pip-build-env-u0zdmye9/overlay/lib/python3.11/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dist.py", line 988, in run_command
          cmd_obj.run()
        File "<string>", line 49, in run
        File "<string>", line 24, in makeparsers
      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pijnu'
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for mediawiki-parser
Failed to build mediawiki-parser
ERROR: Could not build wheels for mediawiki-parser, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects